Tories and Lib Dems consider road charging
As the Conservatives and the Lib Dems promote their plans to charge LGVs to use the country's roads (and you thought that's why we pay road tax) the RHA and the FTA brief us on the issues. Last week the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats both outlined how they intend to tackle congestion on the UK's roads should they get into office. However, the Tories' plan sounds suspiciously like the Lorry Road User Charge (LRUC) which was finally abandoned by the government in 2005, and the Lib Dems want to charge freight to use the roads and give the money to the railways.
